Change in time stamp format in receiver file name

Hi,
We have a scenario as AS2 - PI - FTP Server (AS/400). We want target file name as BMMDDHHSS where B is constant and
MM (month e.g., 01), DD (day e.g., 12), HH (hour e.g.,11), SS (seconds e.g., 12). Is there standard way of doing this, just by changing some configuration in receiver file adpter?
Please let me know, how could we do this using PI. If script is optional, keeping as back-up only.
How come, naming dynamic receiver file names are so difficult in PI. I have been trying to get the answers for our another requirement like to name receiver file as C1.YYMMDD.C2 in a file pass through scenario for more than a month.
It is just file through scenarios, so we can't use variable substitution as we are not going to read content/payload of file
Thanks in advance,
- Riya Patil

Hi Shabarish
Thanks for your reply. I have trying to make this UDF work since almost a month with no luck. Can you please check where am I doing wrong?
DynamicConfiguration conf = (DynamicConfiguration) container.getTransformationParameters().get(StreamTransformationConstants.DYNAMIC_CONFIGURATION);
DynamicConfigurationKey key = DynamicConfigurationKey.create("http://sap.com/xi/XI/System/File","FileName");
String SourceFileName = "C1." + a + ".C2";
conf.put(key, SourceFileName);
return " ";
In the above code, I am passing date as "a". And mapping CurrentDate (formatted) --> UDF --> Target root node.
I am getting the following error in SXMB_MONI:
<SAP:Code area="MAPPING">EXCEPTION_DURING_EXECUTE</SAP:Code>
<SAP:P1>com/sap/xi/tf/_MM_Lockbox_Filename_</SAP:P1>
<SAP:P2>com.sap.aii.utilxi.misc.api.BaseRuntimeException</SAP:P2>
<SAP:P3>Fatal Error: com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.Parser~</SAP:P3>
<SAP:Stack>com.sap.aii.utilxi.misc.api.BaseRuntimeException thrown during application mapping com/sap/xi/tf/_MM_Lockbox_Filename_: Fatal Error: com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.Parser~</SAP:Stack>
Your help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Riya Patil

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